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An attack by former United States President Donald Trump on African and Asian immigrants has generated angry reactions worldwide, GBENGA OLONINIRAN writes

Former United States President Donald Trump has come under backlash following his comments on Saturday at a rally in New Hampshire that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

Specifically, Trump said immigrants from Africa, Asia, and others from all over the world were flooding the US and feared crimes and terrorism would be on the rise.

Trump told the crowd on Saturday that immigrants “from all over the world” are “pouring into the country,” reiterating a phrase CNN reported he used previously that sparked an outcry from the Anti-Defamation League.

According to the CNN report in October 2023, Trump had said, “Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country.” He told the right-leaning news site The National Pulse in a video interview. “It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.”

Reiterating this on Saturday, Trump said, “We got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done.” “They poison… mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America … but all over the world. They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, all over the world,” he said in the viral video that has equally generated mixed reactions.

Trump, who is likely to be the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential race for the White House, while appearing to be taking a swipe at President Joe Biden’s istration, also noted, “They’re pouring into our country. Nobody’s even looking at them. They just come in. The crime is going to be tremendous. The terrorism is going to be… And and we built a tremendous piece of the wall and then we’re going to build more.”

In 2018, news reports emerged that Trump called Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries “shithole countries” in a meeting with Congressional leaders about immigration policy in the White House. He allegedly went ahead to say he preferred immigrants from Norway and Asia as they helped America economically. Trump denied referring to African nations as shithole countries but said that he used tough words to describe them.

NBC NEWS reported Sunday that following Trump’s comments, the Biden campaign released a statement criticising the ex-president’s remarks.

“Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy. Trump is not shying away from his plan to lock up millions of people into detention camps and continues to lie about that time when Joe Biden obliterated him by over seven million votes three years ago,” the Biden campaign said.

One of Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Chris Christie, also called Trump’s remarks “disgusting” on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“He’s disgusting, and what he’s doing is dog-whistle to Americans who feel absolutely under stress and strained from the economy and from the conflicts around the world, and he’s dog-whistling to blame it on people from areas that don’t look like us,” Christie said. “The other problem with this is the Republicans who are saying this is OK.”

He went on to criticise fellow Republican rival Nikki Haley for saying Trump was fit to be president.

“You’re telling me that someone who says immigrants are poisoning the blood of this country, someone who says Vladimir Putin is a character witness, is fit to be president of the United States, was the right person at the right time. Nikki Haley should be ashamed of herself. She’s part of the problem because she’s enabling him.”

The Guardian reported that in November, Trump was widely condemned for calling his opponents “vermin”, a language that echoed that used historically by dictators and authoritarians. The report further disclosed that former Republican speaker of the House Paul Ryan called Trump an “authoritarian narcissist.”

NBC disclosed that Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about being compared to Hitler but noted Trump had made criticising the handling of America’s southern border a focal point of his campaign and frequently talked about the flow of immigrants into the US.

Trump’s allies in Congress have made immigration a top priority and are demanding new policies be created to handle the border before Republicans will approve additional funding for Ukraine or Israel, both of which are waging wars with backing from the US, the report adds.

Knocking Trump’s comments, former minister of foreign affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, said Trump was echoing anti-immigration comments from as well as by Henry Kissinger.

According to him, both Kissinger and Trump families were immigrants themselves.

Prof. Akinyemi in an interview with our correspondent on Sunday said, “These two came from immigrant families themselves. Well, Trump was born in the US but his parents were immigrants and Kissinger’s parents were immigrants from . He was born in . And when you also look at right-wing politicians, in Britain for example (including some Nigerians), they have become anti-immigrants and yet they are immigrants themselves. I think we have to see this as a syndrome of immigrants turning on their backgrounds in order to make themselves acceptable to their country of adoption. It’s a syndrome. You’re turning on your background and it is very well known psychologically. So I’m not surprised, but I would have expected that people like Kissinger with his intellect would at least get over this or if he couldn’t get over it, he would suppress it rather than give it … legitimacy.” He noted that this was dangerous.

A former Nigerian Ambassador to Mexico, Ogbole Amedu-Ode, said in an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday said such a statement was not new from Trump and it only meant that Nigerians should fix their own country.

Amedu said, “Trump saying such a thing is not new. It is typically Trump. He has always been like that. You recall when he said people should go back to their ‘shit hole’ countries. And one of Trump’s doctrines was America first in everything. On a general note, you would discover that Caucasian Americans (white Americans) have been very paranoid about the increasing population of people of other colours – people of African descent and other races in the US demographic dispensation. So, that discomfort, that feeling of gradually becoming a minority in a country ‘called their own’ is responsible for such comments from characters like Donald Trump. So for me, it’s not a surprise. It’s just the fact that somebody like that (can be) in power and he’s still considered to be in the running for the Republican ticket.

“What such comments tell me is that we should get down and fix our country so that migration to other countries will be minimal.”

The President, International Human Rights and Dignity Defenders Forum, Comr. David Omeike described Trump’s statement as unfortunate.

Omeike said, “Such a statement coming from him is a bit unfortunate. The truth is that he cannot change the standing pattern of life in America. He’s not the first president in that country and not the first to contest and he would not be the last. But it’s good for the sake of posterity that he minds his utterances. He forgets to understand that such statements will only end up demarketing him. Nigerians over there are many so the more he tries to still come up with that racial discrimination, the more he thwarts his chances.”

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The problem is that the democrats are not ready to do the right thing. How can they be dangling a frail man for Americans to re-elect? Do they mean well for humanity or even themselves?

I don't know why entitled people feel triggered when patriotic Americans like Donald J. Trump say they don't want too many immigrants. Trump is a patriot.

I dedicate “Big Dog” by Benny the Butcher feat. Lil Wayne to him.
Great jam!

He's right.

I don't get why the Yanks keep letting in these dodgy immigrants. They're flooding in like there's no tomorrow. Ruining the place and no one's saying a word.

Paris is almost if not a shadow of its former self, with many streets spoiled by the actions of a few illegal black immigrants. Even the United Kingdom, my beloved, is not immune to this issue. It seems that lads can't even enjoy a pint at the local pub without fear of being harmed by Islamic terrorists, etc. I wonder why the government accepts these folks and allows this sort of behaviour to continue. Disgusting.

The other day, some Muslim bloke molested a 14-year-old girl, and her dad had a go at him. But no one had the guts to give him a punch. This is not a rare occurrence, you know. Europe, especially , UK, Switzerland, has gone soft.
These guys are literally everywhere, breeding and breeding. Deport them all I say!

The best home truth of the century, but it is unfortunate that some people don't just like the truth.

Lol Trump again

Islie:


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Is this not a former President of the same country that some ignorant ,negative-minded, hate-filled, cyberbullies, unpatriotic elements with low self esteem call 'saner clime'?

Only inferiority complex will make anyone, especially a black person, raised to hate Nigeria, Nigerians and others not from their tribe, regard that some white people are better than him, especially when the people he believes that are better than him are made up of men who believe that his own black race blood/DNA is toxic and should never mix with the blood of white folks.

Since the day I watched President Trump say that his American people should be injected with disinfectants into their blood to kill covid 19 virus, nothing else he says bothers me. US got the kind of leader they deserve. A former
President of clime USA o. So much for US education. Smh

God bless Nigeria my fatherland! Check my signature for free stuffs!

I want to see if any Mumu will call IPOB or Igbos on this thread.

Let me Mount here.

Damnnn niggar

Trump should shut the fuckkk up

Color me shocked

I care less

I love my country Nigeria and I am staying here

Dammmn

Donald is a talkative

Racist Trump dog whistling to his base of Christian extremists

Donald Trump is a talkative

We all know what they think .


But we keep deceiving ourselves and denying the truth....

Striving and toiling to go there and other European countries...

It’ll pain an average Nigerian, but he’s right.

he didnt say any lie

This Useless Idiot called Trump has not learnt any lessons...

He would surely repeat history....... That is Defeat...

His own Grand parents were immigrants from Europe...

His current wife is an Immigrant...

If Trump is insulting immigrants and telling them to go back home, then he should first send his wife back to Slovenia..

All this insults and attacks on immigrants would only make them rally round the Democratic Party

And they have the numbers to ensure that Trump is defeated again

Truth is bitter

Either you like it or not, you can't close the door yet -- guys still plenty wey wan enter...

Shame on African leaders for embezzling what's meant for african development.... spittts

If you understand what is happening in US now you will agree but those japa people will fight back. US is underseige right now. That is why crime is on the high.

US Politics 😹😹😹

Really?


Abi na America d poison Africans with their immoral ways

Ahah.. African keyboard warriors will start expressing outrage now. It's his country after all.

South Africans do worse.
North Africans do worse.
Here in Nigeria we're as tribalist as it can get.
When we go understand say them done tire for us?

He made valid points, he doesn't want riffraffs from shithole countries constituting nuisance in his country.